Experience

Leadership

Susan Sikora has more than 25 years’ experience in healthcare public relations and communications. In 2008, she founded Conduit Health Communications, LLC, and serves as a consultant and chief strategist while overseeing a constantly growing network of healthcare communications freelancers.

As an executive-level communicator for PR agencies, multinational corporations and nonprofit organizations, she developed award-winning national and global product communications and disease awareness programs across a wide range of therapy areas.

While Susan has special expertise in neuroscience, she has managed many high-profile projects in the areas of rare disorders, oncology, infectious disease, genetics, nutrition, dermatology, cardiology and respiratory illness. She has launched multi-year and multi-layer campaigns supporting new products, indications and line extensions for several blockbuster medicines, and helped establish important benefits in the marketplace of mature products facing generic competition. Additionally, Susan has done extensive work for healthcare technology and diagnostic companies.

Susan is passionate about creating opportunities for mutually beneficial alliances among industry, advocacy, and the healthcare community. She has fostered many relationships among these groups to advance patient care and scientific discovery.

Six years working in R&D communications at GlaxoSmithKline gave Susan deep experience in pre-commercial corporate, product and data communications – including early brand building and positioning work. She is an advocate for clinical trial volunteerism. She is also committed to regulatory compliance competency in healthcare communications, and helped launch a company dedicated to regulatory training and certification services.

Throughout her career, Susan has demonstrated leadership in training other communicators. She served as an advisory board member for the publication Communique and has contributed to PR Tactics. She is a speaking coach to executives and facilitator of advisory boards. Previously, she served as a guest lecturer at North Carolina State University, board member and communications committee chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Carolinas Chapter, and member of the Health Academy, International Sectors of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA),and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.

Our Network

The freelance communications specialists and alliance partners in our constantly growing network have played an important role in the education or promotion around virtually every medicine marketed in the past two decades, as well as many diagnostic tests, medical devices and other technologies. They have successfully worked with countless patient and advocacy groups and government agencies to manage or advance a wide range of issues. Tell us your communication challenge, and we’ll match you with the right expert or team of experts to help you get the attention you’ve earned (or to help you manage the attention you don’t want).

Senior strategists, including founder and nationally recognized healthcare consultant Susan Sikora, to guide your efforts and help you form the right alliances

Writers who can light fires with icicles to make all your communications resonate with and influence your target audiences

Designers who can translate your vision into meaningful and attention-getting visuals that advance your objectives

Specialists in traditional, digital and social media who know what it takes to broaden the reach and effectiveness of your story and messages

Think of Conduit as the Uber for all your communication challenges. Contact us today to learn more about how we make our A-team part of yours.

Case Studies

Conduit professionals have been involved in hundreds of projects. Since some are proprietary, contact us and we will send you a customized and confidential collection of case studies based on what your organization wants to accomplish.

Endorsements

Incisively strategic, imminently creative, focused and accountable – these are some of the descriptors for the work product provided by Susan Sikora. Susan was instrumental in the launch of my company. She wrapped her head around the CCC mission, demonstrating an intimate understanding of our offerings. Susan drove the communication strategy, helping to identify and…